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jim, we will start here. >> i am jim pearson. thank you very much for that awful address. thank you. let me ask you a question about the call to which you begin your address. and it's always been political to some degree in the 1950's we had ronald reagan and adolph, the hollywood ten. today we have robert redford, barbra streisand. so, you describe the culture. what is the dynamic come in your opinion, that drives it to the left? and are there any signs, perhaps in your own career, by which it might be directed before it brings us all down like the one shady? >> well, you know, in my racket of show business in particular in hollywood we are fantasists. if you look at the people that are trying to save the world, they are trying to save it in the 30's and 40's the freeze in hollywood was she wasn't in the thirties read. okay. so the fantasies of the 30's and 40's today are saving the world in every movie and it makes sense. of [laughter] >> you are a connoisseur of the confidence man. you have given us some of the greatest confidence men in a theater and film. jimmy is one
jim, we will start here. >> i am jim pearson. thank you very much for that awful address. thank you. let me ask you a question about the call to which you begin your address. and it's always been political to some degree in the 1950's we had ronald reagan and adolph, the hollywood ten. today we have robert redford, barbra streisand. so, you describe the culture. what is the dynamic come in your opinion, that drives it to the left? and are there any signs, perhaps in your own career, by...
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jim is kind of sick. susan, his wife was aned incredibly suffering person who never betrayed her confidence in and trust in the clintons. and she was treated scandalously by ken knit star who had her e man kled and put her in solitary confinement. -horrible the way she he treated her. james anyone who can understand and talk about him was probably one win and cad me award. i'm not that person. -- [inaudible] i'm sorry nap is the most tragic event one can conceive of. foster and west and hillary clinton were best friends. they had lunch every day. west and convinced protected her with the law firm, was accused her of too much time to do politics and not enough time for the law firm. she usinged to call [inaudible] she would throw a birthday party for him and have a belly dancer perform. they were so close it was incredible. when he went to the white house that relationship changed. and he became more someone she gave orders to. and among other things she gave him orders to handle travel gate. and suppress
jim is kind of sick. susan, his wife was aned incredibly suffering person who never betrayed her confidence in and trust in the clintons. and she was treated scandalously by ken knit star who had her e man kled and put her in solitary confinement. -horrible the way she he treated her. james anyone who can understand and talk about him was probably one win and cad me award. i'm not that person. -- [inaudible] i'm sorry nap is the most tragic event one can conceive of. foster and west and hillary...
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he is working for the house un-american activities committee, big jim and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. in and what he does is defined for these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communists up using his fists, a big fight. whited in spires is he follows the story out and he says they went back and they -- and i got off. he starts to say something along the lines of you know maybe the constitution isn't all that great. maybe the congressional committees aren't the best thing to do. maybe we should bare knuckle it with the communist. maybe we need to have few less congressional committees investigating and is that style of -- dewayne personifies and mccarthy exemplifies in numerous ways. richard nixon tries to take up and make a part of his own view of the cold war. and in fact when the first scandal breaks that richard nixon is getting money and wealthy businessmen, to fund his campaign, one of the first thing's richard nixon does is hit the communist bloc. these ar
he is working for the house un-american activities committee, big jim and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. in and what he does is defined for these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communists up using his fists, a big fight. whited in spires is he follows the story out and he says they went back and they -- and i got off. he starts to say something along the lines of you know...
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so jim, let's start with you. what happened and why? >> well, the union navy was on a roll in the fall and winter of '61 and '62 and the spring of 1862. and it looked like they were going to open up the mississippi river completely in the summer of 1862. vicksburg was really the only confederate bastion still on the mississippi river, and both the sea-going fleet under, now-admiral david farrogot came up from the gulf of mexico to vicksburg and the so-called we were flotilla of river boats fought down the mississippi, capturing memphis on the way and a number of other places as well, and they combined to bombard vicksburg, but it was clear that the city could not -- the batteries could not be taken without the support of army troops. and general hellic, who was the army commander in that teeter -- i like to call him general "can't be done." tells farrogot if he could ferry his troops to help -- to capture vicksburg, and hellic said, can't be done. don't have enough troops. the level of the river was dropping so much, the union naval for
so jim, let's start with you. what happened and why? >> well, the union navy was on a roll in the fall and winter of '61 and '62 and the spring of 1862. and it looked like they were going to open up the mississippi river completely in the summer of 1862. vicksburg was really the only confederate bastion still on the mississippi river, and both the sea-going fleet under, now-admiral david farrogot came up from the gulf of mexico to vicksburg and the so-called we were flotilla of river...
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this is big jim. and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring. that is mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. and in the end what he does is he finds where these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communist out using his fists in a big fight, and then what transpires is he follows the story out and says they went back, testified to the committee, and they got off, okay? and he starts to say something along the lines of, maybe the constitution isn't all that great. maybe these congressional committees aren't the right thing to do. maybe we should just bare knuckle it with communism. have a few more fistfights and less congressional committees investigating and it's that gruff-macho style that wayne personifies greatly and mccarthy exemplifies -- that richard nixon tries to take up and make part of his own view of the colored war. -- the cold war. when the first scandal breaks and nixon is getting money from these wealthy businessmen to fund his campaign, richard nixon says, it's a communist plot.
this is big jim. and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring. that is mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. and in the end what he does is he finds where these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communist out using his fists in a big fight, and then what transpires is he follows the story out and says they went back, testified to the committee, and they got off, okay? and he starts to say something along the lines of, maybe...
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i know you were in the jim crow south in baker county, in georgia and you were daddy's girl. and trying to get all gangster driving the tractor at 4 years old and in the streets and neighborhood. tell us about that. >> well, you know, we were in baker county, out, you hear about, you read about some of the i have haves of earlier years but the gator and the sheriff in our county wanted to be known as the gator. the gator actually ruled every thing, everyone in the county. you can't imagine looking at the western from earlier days anyone like him but he was worse than what you have seen in your worst western. but growing up in that we, my family lived, my great-great grandparents had come to baker county. i don't know whether they came as slaves or not but i know they end up there as share croppers and with the up tent on buying land and that they did. they bought enough land that the area where i grew up was still today called hawkins town and lots of family. but it was that way, you know, the hawkins lived in one area the williams in another but we were all one big family an
i know you were in the jim crow south in baker county, in georgia and you were daddy's girl. and trying to get all gangster driving the tractor at 4 years old and in the streets and neighborhood. tell us about that. >> well, you know, we were in baker county, out, you hear about, you read about some of the i have haves of earlier years but the gator and the sheriff in our county wanted to be known as the gator. the gator actually ruled every thing, everyone in the county. you can't...